United Arab Emirates - Telephone lines

Fixed telephone subscriptions

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions in United Arab Emirates was 2,380,866 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 2,380,866 in 2020 and a minimum value of 25,808 in 1975.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1975 25,808
1976 36,061
1977 49,830
1978 72,082
1979 96,386
1980 120,591
1981 142,591
1982 163,098
1983 177,841
1984 188,806
1985 207,052
1986 220,678
1987 247,800
1988 296,143
1989 352,730
1990 396,435
1991 437,503
1992 491,549
1993 553,206
1994 615,124
1995 672,330
1996 738,074
1997 835,090
1998 915,223
1999 975,178
2000 1,020,097
2001 1,052,930
2002 1,093,654
2003 1,135,758
2004 1,187,734
2005 1,236,860
2006 1,309,683
2007 1,385,523
2008 1,595,991
2009 1,580,148
2010 1,479,485
2011 1,825,496
2012 1,967,486
2013 2,086,015
2014 2,103,036
2015 2,258,646
2016 2,285,809
2017 2,320,837
2018 2,341,392
2019 2,362,602
2020 2,380,866

Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people)

The value for Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) in United Arab Emirates was 24.07 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 45 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.88 in 1999 and a minimum value of 4.71 in 1975.

Definition: Fixed telephone subscriptions refers to the sum of active number of analogue fixed telephone lines, voice-over-IP (VoIP) subscriptions, fixed wireless local loop (WLL) subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

See also:

Year Value
1975 4.71
1976 5.65
1977 6.78
1978 8.63
1979 10.34
1980 11.83
1981 13.00
1982 14.00
1983 14.48
1984 14.59
1985 15.16
1986 15.26
1987 16.16
1988 18.20
1989 20.44
1990 21.68
1991 22.58
1992 23.94
1993 25.46
1994 26.81
1995 27.84
1996 29.07
1997 31.26
1998 32.53
1999 32.88
2000 32.55
2001 31.88
2002 31.44
2003 30.60
2004 29.19
2005 26.96
2006 24.71
2007 22.46
2008 22.51
2009 19.96
2010 17.30
2011 20.40
2012 21.52
2013 22.68
2014 22.82
2015 24.38
2016 24.42
2017 24.46
2018 24.31
2019 24.18
2020 24.07

Classification

Topic: Infrastructure Indicators

Sub-Topic: Communications